Bobb completed
officer candidate school in August 2009 and was commissioned in the U.S. Marine Corps as a
second lieutenant. She then completed
The Basic School in May 2010 and then went on to the
Naval Justice School. She subsequently served as a
judge advocate, where among other duties, she provided legal advice to military commanders in Afghanistan's
Helmand Province. Bobb left the Marine Corps two years later. In 2014, Bobb ran for Congress as an independent in
California's 53rd district. She came in last among the eight candidates in the blanket primary, with just 929 out of 88,953 votes. In August 2021, Bobb and Rion were named in a $1.6 billion
defamation lawsuit by
Dominion Voting Systems against OANN for promoting false claims that the company had engaged in election fraud. According to the company's complaint, Bobb joined Rion in "falsely accusing Dominion of rigging the election and stealing it from Trump" while "simultaneously and covertly moonlighting as a Trump campaign advisor". In March 2022, Bobb announced she would be leaving OANN to work for Trump's
Save America political action committee.
Involvement in attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election Bobb was present in the
Willard Hotel "command center" where top Trump associates worked to prevent
Joe Biden's election from being certified on January 6, 2021.
The Washington Post reported in January 2022 that Bobb worked with
Rudy Giuliani and other Trump campaign officials in December 2020 to
execute a plan for Republicans in seven states to create fraudulent
certificates of ascertainment to falsely assert Trump had been reelected. In July 2022,
Politico acquired an email that Bobb sent on December 13, 2020, to several Trump attorneys and allies, the day before electors met across the country to certify their states' election results. It discussed how the Trump campaign director of election day operations
Mike Roman had spoken with teams in seven states Biden had won who were focused on the effort to appoint false electors. Roman reported developments to Bobb, who then relayed them to recipients that included Giuliani,
Jenna Ellis,
Boris Epshteyn and one-time Trump attorneys
Joe diGenova and his wife
Victoria Toensing. Bobb discussed difficulties false electors were having in gaining access to state buildings where they could convene. She alleged that "Democrats are voting by
Zoom" and that "Dems getting a police escort to cast ballots" by 200 Michigan state police officers. By March 2023, prosecutors for the
Georgia election racketeering prosecution that later indicted Trump, Giuliani, Ellis, Roman and fifteen others sought to interview Bobb, but her attorney
John Lauro indicated she would decline. On April 24, 2024, Bobb and seventeen others were indicted on nine felony counts each of fraud, forgery and conspiracy in connection with the
2020 Arizona fake electors plot that attempted to reverse Trump's 2020 presidential election loss in Arizona. On May 21, 2024, Bobb and 10 others pled not guilty after being arraigned in
Maricopa County Superior Court. However, Bobb was among five of these eleven defendants who appeared virtually rather than in-person. Investigators from the
DOJ and the FBI met with Trump's attorneys at
Mar-a-Lago on June 3 about the classified material that was subpoenaed on May 11. During this meeting, Bobb, who was Trump's custodian of records, gave the DOJ a signed declaration that had been drafted by
Evan Corcoran, attesting that all classified material had been returned. As it turned out, the declaration had been drafted by Corcoran and handed to Bobb, who insisted on adding caveats because she had not done the search herself. Two months later, after the falsehood came to light,
The New York Times reported that the signed declaration possibly indicated that Trump's legal team had not been forthright with federal investigators about the material. As of September 16, 2022, investigators had not decided whether to pursue a criminal inquiry against Bobb and Corcoran. In October 2022, multiple news agencies reported that Bobb was speaking with federal investigators in connection to the Mar-a-Lago probe. According to Bobb, Corcoran told her that he had conducted a thorough search of Mar-a-Lago before asking her to certify that all of the requested records had been returned. In February 2023, Bobb testified before a grand jury in connection with the investigation.
Republican National Committee The Republican National Committee voted to name Trump loyalists
Michael Whatley and
Lara Trump to lead the organization on March 8, 2024. After dozens of employees were quickly discharged, Bobb was named senior counsel for election integrity on March 12.
The Washington Post reported after Bobb's April 2024 indictment that she was not likely to leave her RNC position, but rather her indictment "solidifies her identity as a dedicated Trump loyalist who fiercely fought to reverse his loss in the politically competitive state and potentially elevates her role within the RNC to help him win in November." Weeks before the 2024 election, Bobb said during a podcast that she believed the political left was "evil" and "demonic" and sought to "normalize pedophilia." She continued, "I think there's a lot of weird, weird things going on behind the scenes that we probably can't see," adding, "I hope they all break the surface so that we just get this cleansing in our nation and we can clean out the filth." == Bibliography ==